Stringy Cosmic Strings and Noncompact Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Greene, Brian R.; Shapere, Alfred D.; Vafa, Cumrun; Yau, Shing-Tung

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(90)90248-C

Stringy Cosmic Strings and Noncompact Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Brian R. Greene
(
- Harvard U.
)
,
Alfred D. Shapere
(
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study
)
,
Cumrun Vafa
(
- Harvard U.
)
,
Shing-Tung Yau
(
- Harvard U.
)

Oct, 1989

36 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 337 (1990) 1-36

Published: 1990

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(90)90248-C

Report number:

HUTP-89-A047,
IASSNS-HEP-89-47

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

We describe string vacuum configurations for which the radii (moduli) of the internal compact space vary in four-dimensional space-time, focusing on configurations which have the interpretation of cosmic strings. We will show that some of them admit Ricci-flat Kähler metrics (i.e. they correspond to noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds), thus providing new vacuum solutions to the full string theory. One novel feature of some of these solutions is that the internal space decompactifies near the core of the cosmic string, without producing any physical singularities.

string model
supersymmetry
astrophysics: string
space-time: Calabi-Yau
effective Lagrangian
compactification
gravitation
space-time: noncompact
vacuum state
field equations: solution

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